The obvious choice is often wrong. by Bart de Langhe, Stefano Puntoni and Richard Larrick From the Magazine (May–June 2017) The human brain likes simple straight lines. As a result, people tend to ...

A concept that I have related to my entire life was recently given a name by a teacher of mine. This is the both/and way of thinking. It is a more open-minded approach to viewing the world. The way we ...

I am an organized person, but I am not a linear thinker. My thinking tends to be grouped by projects, with one idea spinning off into five other directions. Opening a book to start writing a lecture ...

One of the biggest challenges we have as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms. A to B to C to D, etc… You have to eat breakfast before you can have dinner and you can’t eat ...

As I continue my series of questions while my granddaughter becomes more and more immersed in the game, advancing with astonishing moves on the controller, she will say with gentle exasperation, ...

The obvious choice is often wrong. by Bart de Langhe, Stefano Puntoni and Richard Larrick Test yourself with this word problem: Imagine you’re responsible for your company’s car fleet. You manage two ...

With two kids and a husband who are ‘organizationally challenged’, I’ve written about organizational strategies before. Keeping organized reduces anxiety. If we try to keep everything in our head ...